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My issue with the curriculum is that they pile on work I don’t think is very valuable. My daughter asked me why her cousin gets to look at maps at school and why he gets to study history when she has to fill out so many worksheets about her feelings. He is at a boys school and she freaked out when she visited and saw them playing math games and studying maps. “Why don’t I get to do that? I have to read lady books about dress designers and those boys get to read about bloody battles and how countries came together!”

I think the core of what they have read so far at least in her years is from a xerox copy of the Howard Zinn recommended list from Pollyanna, especially in history. My daughter loves history and once she saw what it was like at another school, she was like I want to go to a real school, not a school for ladies (her word). The stuff they read stinks of contemporary politics since 2020, which will be over and done with before she’s an adult, while the Bible will still be relevant. I also don’t pay for independent schools to have the same curriculum I can download from a consultant website.

Austen was a revolutionary, advocating for women to marry who they want.
It is probably the most feminist act she could have done. I don’t want my daughter to roll her eyes and dismiss it because she’s only ever been taught to think no one born before 1968 knew anything or that questions of rights and responsibilities have ever been easy or obvious. Austen endures because she questioned the status quo, all my daughter reads in school reinforces a particular take. It’s always the “correct” one and is often very superficial and not well written.

Our leaving was prompted by her spending time at a boys school with a cousin and seeing for herself what they were learning vs what she was studying in class. I am not (or maybe I am?) conservative, but I don’t think anyone at her school feels comfortable expressing a different POV than whatever they know is the thing they are supposed to say. I am a Oh God, I have to vote for Cuomo voter and I don’t raise my hand in meetings. The funny part is half that room is probably secret trump voters who vote their taxes. I don’t think you
should teach kids it’s important to go along to get along, especially girls.

Whatever the politics, it’s the silencing of dissent I see happening within my kid and it’s the opposite of what I want from a girls school. So what if she goes to Harvard if she can’t formulate an argument once she’s there?

They aren’t learning basic civics but can mumble the difference between equity and equality but also aren’t allowed to question if maybe at a school with an admission procedure, merit is an okay thing to believe in. Some committee somewhere decides it’s all land acknowledgements, no national anthem.
It’s not even them not having it, it’s that both girls and parents are treated as problematic for having an opinion on it when we are paying an enormous amount of money. They only care about the families who have tens of millions of dollars to give them, and I hate that my daughter knows that.

Just because you work hard doesn’t mean you are working smart, and if you are going to demand that kids work that hard, I think it has to be for stuff that is worth it. I have heard constantly from my daughter and her friends how worried they are about offending people. About 2022, they added unintended harm as an offense in the discipline code and the mean girls cry to the teachers and turn in girls they don’t like. The end result is they all walk around crying I am sorry, I am sorry all the time.[/quote]

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